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Temuka Leader, Issue 1527, 18 December 1886, Page 3

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CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE. The Corn Exchange reports for the week ending Friday evening, the 17th ihat. The rains that have fallen during the past week have done an incalculable amount of good to the farming interest, not only to the grain, but also the grass and root crops. English values are still improving, and advices from Australia are as good as can be anticipated. Wheat—Wheat has nn alterations in value. Sellers are very firm and buyers will not by beyond their immediate wants. Pearl remains at 4s fid; Tuscan and Hunters, 4s 5d to 4s fid ; second quality is being quitted in small lota at 4s 2d and 4a 3d; chicken wheat is alums* entirely out of the market. Oats—This cereal seems to have got to its lowest, as there are buyers in moderate quantities, while large holders are asking higher prices. Milling are out of the market, consequently prices are nominal at 2s Id ; short feed ranges from Is lOd to 2s; Tartars and Danish are slow at Is 8d to Is 9d. - ' , Barley—Nothing beyond feed parcels are offering, values ranging from 2s 2d to 2s 4d. ... Beans— Beans have been sold in small parcels at 3s 3d. p e as—Peas are unsaleable, there being no outside demand. Grass Seed—No business to note, although inquiries are being made as to the likely opening rates, which, howevev, •s yet have not been determined. Potatoes—Potatoes have but little bmjjjmss doing to note; almost any price wahil be accepted for stocks now remaining on hand. Dairy Produce—Dairy produce has but little business to'bote. Butter (in rtibs) is worth from 5d to fid, and new cheese (which is only offering in limited quantities) is fetching 4d to 6d, according to size and quality. The above prices (potatoes excepted) are for delivery f.o.b. Lyttelton. CHRISTCHURCH STOCK MARKETS. At the Addington lards on Wednesday, veay large entries of stock wfero yarded. Attendance of buyers about an avarage, and pretty fair entry, some grand drafts of fat Christmas cattle being offered. The local supply was augmented by a line of North Island bullocks, and the supply was altogether too large, and the sale v/aa a dragging one and iu favor of buyers. Prime steers sold at from £8 to £lO ; medium sorts, £6 to £7 10s; heifers, very prime and heavy, from £8 to £ll 10a; medium sorts, from £i IBs to £6 16s; an average price of about 20s per 1001 b. Fat sheep —An abundant supply, a large proportion crossbred ewes, Demand not very aod all descriptions suffered a decline upon late rates. Best crossbred wethers sold at from 8s fid to 10s 3d per head ; medium 7s to 8s; crossbred ewes from 3s fid to 7s fid; merino wethers from 3s to ss, an average value of IJd per lb, some higher, some lower, as per quality. Fat Lambs—A good ’tHJPPIy 5 prices ranged from 3s 3d to 8s 4d. Store sheep—A pretty fair supply, a slightly healthier tone prevailing. Crossbred hoggets sold at from 3s b fis 3d, lines of four-tooths crossbred at fis, Iwo-toolbs 4s fid and 6s, Store Cattle —A good entry, demand middling and pretty good clearance made late rates ruling. Some very forward three to four-year-old steers sold at £5 17s fid ; three-year-olds from £4 10s to £5 5s ; heifers, £3 to £4 ; yearlings, 18s to 235! Pigs—A small supply,, dull inquiry. Late values not maintained. DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS. The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday : Wheat —At present there is almost nothing doing in .this prod act. Millets hold aloof from purchasing in view of the proximity of harvest and the prospects of abundant crops, it being apparently their intention to reduce their stocks to a very low level in anticipation of fall in values when the new wheat comes in. rftocks in agents’ hands on account of farmers are very light, but a considerable quantity of northern wheat is still available from the Canterbury and Uamaru districts. Quotations are nominally—prime milling wheat from 4s 9d to 4s lid ; medium, 4s fid to 4s 8d ; inferior and fowls’ wheat, 3s 9d to 4s 4d," Oats —The market manifests symptoms of slight improvement, but so slight as to be still unquotable. A few sales have transpired during the week at from Is B£d to Is 9Jd for prime milling ; and from Is 7dito Is 8d for good short feed ; inferior, is fid.

B riey - The only description inquired for is feed at 2s 6d. Milling may be quoted at 2s Bd. Malting is neglected at 3s nominally. Grass Seed is without inquiry. Chaff—Best oaten sheaf, £4 6s; medium, £3 15a to £4 ; straw chaff, £2 15*. Potatoes —Derwents, £1 10s to £2, poor demand ; kidneys, £8 per ton. Butter—New Season’s salt, 6£d per lb; fresh, 6d for best mixed lots. Cheese—6jd per lb for best new season’s.. Eggs— la per dozen, with prospects of i fall in price. ' Sheepskins—Quotations are; Butchers’ green skins : Crossbreds bring from 4s to 5a 6d ; merinos, from 3s 3d to 4s 4d ; pelts, from 4d to 3d ; lambskins, from 8d to Is fid. Country dry skins : prices equal to about 4d per lb. ' Hides of all descriptions are in rather mproved inquiry, and prices are in consequence a shade firmer. Tallow—Both rendered tallow and rough fat meets with ready sale at last r. cok’s quotations. DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS. At the Burnside Yards on Wednesday the following business was transacted Fat Cattle. —1 he market was well supplied to-day, 214 bead being yarded. Prime cattle sold at fully last week’s rates, but medium and inferior were a | shade easier. Best bullocks brought from i £9 to £l3 2s fid ; medium from £7 to £8 10*; best cows, from £8 2s fid to £lO 2s fid; medium, £4 12s 61 to £7 s*. The sales at Burnside for the next two weeks, owing to the Christmas and New Year holidays, will take place on Tuesday, 21st, nod Tuesday 28th respectively. Wright, Stephenson .and Co. sold for Mr John Murray (Orari), 6 bullocks at from £8 7s fid to £8 10s. Donald | Stronacb sold for Mr A. tl. Clark (Temuka) bullocks from £7 12s fid to £ll 6s, L. Maclean sold for Mr J. M. Greenaway (Ellingham Grange, South Canterbury), 18 prime bullocks at £8 7s fid to £lo—averaging £9 2a fid ; for Mr Andrew Grant (Temuka), 12 bullocks at £6 17s fid to £9 2a fid—averaging £8 2s fid. Fat Sheep—lß6s penned, inclusive of about 400 merinos. Best crossbred wethers (in wool) brought from lls fid to 14», merino wethers (in wool) from 8s to 10s fid, crossbred wethers (shorn) from 7a to lls 9d, crossbred ewes (shorn) from fis to 8s 3d. Fat Lambs- 1001 penned. For prime lots a good demand was experienced, and for such prices were better ; but for small and medium quality lambs lower values had to be accepted. Prices ranged from 4s fid to 8s 9d. Pigs—Two hundred and sixty-seven penned, mostly stores. A few breeding sows of the Berkshire breed realised from 2ga to 3gs each ; bacon pigs, from 38a to 51s; perkers, from 26s to 35?; stores, from 8a to 23s ; suckers, from fis to 12s, Horses—Wright, Stephenson and Co. quote first-class draughts at from £2O to £25 ;j medium, £l4 to £18; first-class hacks and light-harness horses, £l4 to £lB ; medium, £6 to £l2 ; inferior and aged, £lloa to £5. *